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" Growing up, I remember watching 'Little House on the Prairie' and 'L.A. Law' and being so obsessed with it. "
Julie Plec
Growing
Up
Growing Up
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" Of every movie that I've seen multiple times, of every TV show that I was obsessed with, I don't think I was ever obsessed with anything more than 'Flowers in the Attic,' which I read 13 times between fourth grade and senior year. "
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Flowers
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" There's a lot of storylines over the years where you feel like it's maybe meant to be more important than it ends up being, and that's because we jump ship, and you gracefully extricate yourself from that as well as you can. "
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" The people I worked for before I was doing 'Vampire Diaries' were very generous to me. "
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" I wanted to work in Hollywood. I was captivated by it. I read 'Premiere Magazine' and 'Movieline Magazine' and 'Us' before it was a weekly magazine. "
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" TV is really, really, really hard work. You sacrifice a lot of your personal life, a lot of your sanity, just to do one show. "
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" An actor's only perception is of their character, and they're looking at one piece. A writer is looking at the entire story. They're going to see things that the writer didn't see because they're only looking through their lens. "
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Story
Character
" There's something about a supernatural universe that you would think would actually make it easier to create tension and build conflict and have big scares and big ideas and big sequences. And that's true in a lot of ways. You can pick the best idea out of a hat. "
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" I call it 'The Breakfast Club' philosophy. There's something about being trapped in a dire situation with a group of people that you would never normally be trapped with. "
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Breakfast
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You
" Because I was such a student of pop culture growing up, I love that on the list of things that I got to work on in my first years out of college were 'Scream' and 'Dawson's Creek' and, ultimately now, 'The Vampire Diaries,' which generations below me grew up on and can quote. I love that. I think that is the coolest thing in the world. "
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Love
Me
" I'm not a morning person, and yet production is a morning person's game. "
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Person
Production
" In junior high, when we got our first VCR, I used to tape four soaps a day. I was a diehard 'General Hospital' fan from when I was nine to 25. "
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Hospital
Used
Day
" I've always loved the genre of virus movies or Armageddon movies - anything that involves being trapped with the cute boy in detention when the zombies are attacking. "
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Loved
Cute
Boy
" I think, make it as beautiful as you can, and then rip it away. That's my sadistic thought as a storyteller. "
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Think
Thought
You
" I feel like Caroline Forbes is such a crucial element... on 'The Vampire Diaries.' "
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I Feel
Feel
Vampire
" As a fan, I hated most of 'The Day After Tomorrow' movie except for the part where Emmy Rossum and Jake Gyllenhaal were stuck in the library, and I thought, 'Oh, I like this now.' There's something about bringing people together in odd circumstances and exploring the petri dish of what happens. "
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People
Tomorrow
Day
" I read 'Tiger Beat' and 'Bop' from the time I was 9, 10, 11 years old. I loved movies. I saw 'E.T.' seven times. I used to yell at people who called me when 'L.A. Law' was on because they should know better. So I just have been so in love with the business of Hollywood since I can remember. "
Julie Plec
Love
People
Time
" When you're telling taut, tight storytelling that has any kind of built-in plot twist elements, you tend to want to stack everything up on top of itself as opposed to letting things breathe and be languid in terms of the passage of time. "
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Kind
You
Want
" As you live your life and accumulate friends, both IRL and on social media, ask yourself, are you a bully too? "
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Live
Social Media
You
" If people love 'TVD' in 20 years the way they still love 'Buffy' today - on its 20th anniversary - I will be happy. "
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People
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Anniversary
" When you're dealing with long-distance relationships, it's a relationship played out over technology. When you're in high school, it's because you're not supposed to act on those impulses yet. So some of my favorite relationships in drama are based in people that can't really be together. "
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School
Relationship
Technology
" I don't like villains who are just villains. People who are just there to be bad - ugh - so annoying. "
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Like
Annoying
Bad
" I think the model of The CW Network is really built on the fan platform more than anything else. The success or longevity of a series has less to do with the number it's pulling and more to do with the social footprint... There is a lot about the fan support on a strictly business level that's really powerful for that network. "
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Support
Powerful
Business
" It took me some time to realize television, for someone like me, was the perfect medium. I like to produce, I like to be detail-orientated, I like to be in charge of a lot of things, and I like to be a storyteller. It's kind of the perfect gig for someone like me. "
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Time
Me
Perfect
" I can stay up until the sun's up, no problem, but I do not like getting up in the morning. "
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I Can
Sun
Morning
" I talk all the time about how much I read growing up and how much I love Stephen King and how he impacted my work from a genre perspective, but Pat Conroy wrote some of the most magnificent stories about characters who had to deal with dysfunctional families and try to find a place of honor in their own world and the pain of loss. "
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Time
Pain
Love
" I watched a lot of soap operas, when I was growing up, and a lot of those great serialized soap dramas. "
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Growing
Great
Up
" Actors have their own processes, and if you want to be respectful of their process, you've got to communicate with them in the language of their process, and keeping that all straight is a little bit of a head-scratcher. "
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Want
You
Got
" When you have to spread heroism across too many players, you don't get to really dig deep into each of them as much as you'd want to. "
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" I thought, 'Oh, I'll be an independent producer. Oh, I'll be a manager.' I was going through all those things in my head, and one night, late at night, I was having what I would now describe as probably a panic attack because there were so many unknowns. An almost literal voice came into my head telling me, 'You need to write.' "
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Night
Late
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" The whole reason I like these virus movies is because I read 'The Stand' when I was in junior high and thought it was the greatest book I'd ever read. "
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Movies
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